Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Bad Taste
Hector Uribe (Photo Credit: Hector Uribe Camapign)
There's no way to sugarcoat this. Hector Uribe, the Democratic Party's nominee for the office of Texas Land Commissioner, put out a press release that is in very bad taste.
Saving a life with CPR is great. Bragging about it is not.
Had the press asked his campaign for comment after learning of Uribe's heroic act from an eyewitness or from the official logs of emergency responders, that would be one thing. The Uribe campaign's effort to get some ink by announcing this on their own is quite another.
The overly descriptive language of the release and Uribe's quote make the taste that much worse. Frankly, I'm embarrassed for Mr. Uribe, his campaign staff and Texas Democrats.
Hopefully, the campaign of Republican incumbent Jerry Patterson will let this gross error stand on its own.
Labels: campaigns, Hector Uribe
